The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-06
THE ATTEMPT TO KILL THE O EAR.
Two Anonymous Dispatches OF
Warming from London-Suicide OF
Nihilist's widow. 'tas

Nihilists widow. 'tld
1t is now learned, says Il Berlin dis
patch to The New lorh IVorId, that
the car and czarina would probably
have been assassnated on the 18th OF
last March if il had not peen for two
anonymous dispatches OF warning
from London. These dispatches were
in exactly the same words, and were in
a cipher the key TO which is only known
to the highest officials OF the Russian
police. The messages asserted that the
emperor's life would be attempted on
! his way to the requiem service in
memory of his father. In spite OF this
warning both the ear and cIarina at
| tended the service. driving to the church
| in closed carriages. The police arrest
cd the consprators and carr ed them
of without any assistance. So quietly
was this done that not over twenty
| people in the street noticed the arrest.
| The ear returned TO tho palace by
another route, and when he reached
/ home he gave way to fit OF terrific
rage, during which not even the en-
press or any OF his children dared to
approach him. Soon after the con-
Spirators were arrested the whole court.
strongly guarded, set out for Gatchna.
On the way thther he had another
lprovidential escape, as distractions of
IRON and wood had been placed upon
J the rails. The train was nearly wreck
ed, but it providentially remained on
the track. The men arrested ultimate
| " confessed where the factory in which
the explosives had been manufactured
was located. The police surprised the
inmates by means of Il stratagem. On
arriving outside the suspected house
sleigh was in accordance with Il pre-
arranged plan, upset and one
Of the shafts thereof apparently
broken, which necessiatcd the occll-
pants innocently requesting some Of the
inhabitants of the house in question to
allow the sleigh to be drawn into the
courtyard in order to be repaired.
This having been granted without sus-
picon. two more sleighs drove up. APP
parently containing companionS of those
IN the first one. Hardly had they done 50
before some of them made rush for the
doors of the building and easily sue
ceedcd in occupying all the apartments,
while the rest surrounded the house
The inhabitants, some twelve in number,
among whom were two women. being
taken completely by surprise, sur
rendered without resistance, but the
police had a narrow escape from being
blown up along with the Whsle
house through one of the inmates try
ing to kick bomb, having the appear
ance of large Russian praycr-book,
with silver clasps. The attempt was
frustrated by one of the Offices tripping
the conspirator up The book was an
Internal machine. While the prison.
ers were being conveyed to the fortress
Of St. Peter and St. Paul one of the off
GERS inquired what had induced them to
engage in such crime, to which the re-
ply was Poverty. They asserted that
they had been scduced by large sums of
money, part of VIII ch was found in their
possession. The fact of these prisoners
being in possess on of so much money
and the large quantities OF explosives
found tend to show that more than the
mere killing of the car must have been
intended. -serSc'
A suicide. not noticed by any
Of the st. Petersburg papers. has
been one Of the results of the attempt
of the 18th of March. This was the
death by self-poisonng of Sophie Lob
kowski. She was the wife of one OF
criminals implicated in the assination
of the late car in 1881. She was Il
talented woman. possessing extreme
beauty and moving in the highest Rus
sian society. She was found TO be in
nocent of an knowledge OF the great
crime, and so escaped punishment.
Left with one son, she turned to litera-
ture as means of support after losing !
her husband She soon made repu-
taton as writer OF romances and |
childrcn's stories. Toward the latter
part of her life she sought consolation |
for her many sorrows IL drink. The |
last time that she called upon her pub |
Usher to collect her money for a brill |
liantly- written Russian society novel |
she was in rags. The attempt upon |
the life OF the present car on the 18th |
of last March excited her greatly. 1t |
bi ought back to her the terrible scenes |
OF excitement through which she |
passed in 1881, and resulted in unset
Ting her mind to such and extent that, !
as stated above. she poisoned herself |
in fit of melancholia.